Lyda Marlene Bohannon's Obituary
Lyda Marlene Bohannon, 75, former owner of Southside Mowers, passed away March 23, 2018 at 3:33a.m. at the Post Acute Medical Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was born February 20, 1943 in Wichita, KS to Marlin Dale and Ruby Lee (Graham) Taylor.Marlene graduated from Ponca City High School, Ponca City, OK and Oklahoma State University, where she majored in foreign language studies. She was a member of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority.She was foremost a true and faithful servant of her Savior, Jesus Christ. She was a devoted loving mother and wife to her children and to her husband. They were paramount, even to her business life and her passion for exercise!Marlene was owner of Southside Mowers, an outdoor power equipment sales and service company, for over 40 years. She was also very involved in her husband’s (at that time Alfred Bohannon’s) barbecue restaurant which he owned in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.Loving exercise, she was also a very energetic and conscientious member of the Saint Francis HealthZone, for over 26 years, and other fitness clubs prior. She loved to do spin classes 5 or 6 days a week, Zumba, rowing, and floor exercises.She could also be characterized as living the motto, “Unlock the Adventure”, or “Life is an Adventure,” by the fact of all her varied interests and accomplishments: twirler of fire batons in high school, radio DJ, fiction and poetry author, international traveler, loyal OU Sooner fan and season ticket holder, OKC Thunder fan, auditions for game shows, and was even an extra in a feature Sci-Fi film, playing the role of a “White House Press Corp Reporter!”But her most cherished life ‘role’ was with her church family, Grace Church, where she rarely missed attending. Marlene was a prayer warrior and a student of The Word, never missing her weekly prayer group. She served and participated in numerous areas of her Christian life: everything from food and clothing pantries, women’s studies, support of medical and outreach missions…to going to Joplin, Mo. to help with tornado relief efforts. Grace had been her church home, from almost the time of it’s founding, when it was known as Grace Fellowship. Most of all, she loved and cherished her Sunday school family at Grace, The Overcomers.Marlene was a “fireball”. Those whom she touched knew that ‘She may be small…but she is MIGHTY!!!”Marlene is preceded in death by her parents, and Al Bohannon, husband and father of their three children. She is survived by her loving husband David C Tam, her brother Dr. Robert Taylor, his wife Deloris and their daughters Jamie Taylor and Sherri Robinson, her son Brendan Bohannon, his wife, Michelle, her daughter Rachel Michnowski and her husband Tom Michnowski, all of Pine Island, Minnesota, her daughter Sarah Henderson and her husband Frank Davis, his daughter, Maddie, of Dallas TX, and her son Jeremy Bohannon, of Seattle, WA. And not least of all…Marlene greatly adored her grand-daughter, Cassidy Henderson, of Corpus Christi, TX and her great grand-daughter, Maizie Michnowski of Minnesota!!In lieu of flowers, donations to Loaves and Fishes, Tulsa, OK or Blessings International (Medicines For Missions), Tulsa, OK, would be gladly accepted and greatly appreciated.Service will be 11:00 AM, Wednesday, April 4, at Grace Church.
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